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Invisible Armies
Max Boot
An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present
Liveright
January 2013
On Sale: January 15, 2013
764 pages
ISBN: 0871404249
EAN: 9780871404244
Kindle: B007P9M034
Hardcover / e-Book
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Military | Non-Fiction History
As fitting for the twenty-first century as von
Clausewitz’s On War was in its own time,
Invisible Armies is a complete global history of
guerrilla uprisings through the ages. Beginning
with the first insurgencies in the ancient world—when
Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder
to defeat than massive conventional armies—Max Boot,
best-selling author and military advisor in Iraq and
Afghanistan, masterfully guides us from the Jewish rebellion
against the Roman Empire up through the horrors of the
French-Indochina War and the shadowy, post-9/11 battlefields
of today. Relying on a diverse cast of unforgettable
characters—not only Mao and Che but also the legendary
Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi, the
archaeologist-turned–military commander T. E. Lawrence, and
the “Quiet American” Edward Lansdale, among others—Boot
explodes everything we thought we knew about unconventional
combat. The result is both an enthralling read and our most
important work on nontraditional warfare.
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